X2Go Bug report logs - #354
Make x2goagent listening to TCP connections configurable in x2goserver.conf

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Package: x2goserver; Maintainer for x2goserver is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2goserver is src:x2goserver.

Reported by: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 11:33:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: pending

Fixed in version 4.0.1.10

Done: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Hi Stefan,

On  So 08 Dez 2013 21:10:57 CET, Stefan Baur wrote:

> Am 08.12.2013 21:05, schrieb Nable 80:
>> One should notice that without root ( who would give root access to
>> generic employee? except (possibly) on his workstation) you still
>> cannot access other users' cookies (except cases when one have too
>                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> wide permissions or known vulnerabilitites with privelege escalation),
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> so you cannot grab their X sessions, can you?
>
> And here we are again at "Hey, $FOO doesn't work, I'll just do chmod  
> -R 777 * and see if that makes it work."
>
> Plus, the rogue employee may as well be the admin, and thus have  
> root rights on the machine where you're logged in.
>
> -Stefan

For X2Go we must assume that the root user is a trustworthy person.  
Otherwise we are completely lost.

Mike


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